Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
Hi Marc,
As the last time I answered my recommendation is OO.o-Calc.
Are you (or is anybody else lurking here) aware of an issue for this? If
not - Barbara or Marc, care to submit one? I mean, there should be a
direct way, shouldn't it?
Thanks & Ciao
Frank
I'd be glad to submit an issue if there isn't one. My idea of how it
should work would extend the kind of data movement that can be done in
Writer (and I guess Calc) where you can select and copy a rectangular
portion of a cell grid, select the top left corner of the destination
cell grid, and paste. That would extend the current capability to use
copy to create/append. (It could even include generating new data base
records as needed if there is an auto-increment value for the key
field.) It would work in queries as well as tables. I love the way paste
works in Writer, it's very intuitive and makes short work of things
I've often had trouble with in MS Word (haven't tried any particularly
recent versions of that, so I don't know if you still have to select an
exactly equivalent area in the destination to be able to paste, but that
was necessary in all the versions I've worked with).
Do you folks agree that this would be a reasonable request? I obviously
haven't thought it through all the way, but I could provide examples of
the kinds of things I'd like to see. Basically, I'd like anything that
looks like a table in Writer, Calc, and Base to allow data interchange.
I've written a lot of User Guide type documentation, I could even work
up some kind of draft of one for this.
While I'm at it, I might look for something about the
much-less-than-helpful error messages when the current create/append
logic hits a snag. May have been fixed since 2.0.4, but if not ....
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